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Part notebook, part recommendations. I log what resonates—talks, threads, books, and plays that influence how I build.
March 2025
March 7, 2025
AI, data centers, and power economics, with Azeem Azhar — Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
Discovering that Patio11 has a long-form podcast has been one of the highlights of my year. The show, "Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie," dives deep into the intricate world of technology and its impact on our lives. In the episode titled "AI, data centers, and power economics," aired on February 27, 2025, Patrick McKenzie and Azeem Azhar explore how AI, infrastructure, and economic incentives intertwine. This podcast is a treasure trove for anyone interested in understanding the complex systems that underpin our modern world.
March 7, 2025
The AI Architect — Bret Taylor — Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
After listening to the podcast, I can confidently say it's one of the best I've heard on AI. Bret Taylor's insights on AI's current landscape are invaluable. He discusses the potential and challenges of scaling AI, emphasizing the importance of models like OpenAI's o1 for NVIDIA's future. The conversation also touches on the Overton Window, noting that AI replacing jobs with agents isn't widely accepted yet. Most people still associate AI primarily with image generation technologies like DALL-E. ## context Title: The AI Architect — Bret Taylor Show: Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast Date: Tuesday 11 February 2025 Original description: The podcast by and for AI Engineers! In 2023, over 1 million visitors came to Latent Space to hear about news, papers and interviews in Software 3.0.
January 2025
January 19, 2025
[Ride Home] Simon Willison: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 — Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
Input: amazing overview of where we stand in thr LLM race. simon is spot on with his takes Output: The podcast provided an amazing overview of the current state of the LLM race. Simon Willison's insights were spot on, offering a clear perspective on where we stand and what to expect moving forward.
November 2024
November 28, 2024
The ultimate guide to founder — led sales | Jen Abel (co
After listening to the podcast, I realized that sales for founders isn't as intimidating as it seems. Jen Abel's insights on leading sales offer a great introduction, breaking down the process into manageable steps. The episode provides actionable advice for building, launching, and growing your product, making it a must-listen for any founder looking to overcome their sales fears.
November 23, 2024
BG2 Ep20: AI Scaling Laws & Market Trends
After listening to the discussion, I'm feeling optimistic about scaling AI, though perhaps not so much about pre-training scaling. For NVIDIA to thrive, it seems like they need to focus on o1 type models. The idea of AI replacing jobs with agents hasn't quite entered the mainstream conversation yet. Most people still associate AI primarily with image generation. It's like when engineers avoid sales, but you're here, curious about the potential of AI. You might be working on something important, and this conversation could be the nudge you need to explore new possibilities. Let's dive into what this means for the future of AI and the job market.
November 14, 2024
Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities — Lightcone Podcast
Techno optimism for technical founders
November 13, 2024
SaaStr 769: The State of SaaS Go-to-Market
The Official SaaStr Podcast is the latest and greatest from the world of SaaStr, interviewing the most prominent operators and investors to discover their tips, tactics and strategies to attain success in the fiercely competitive world of SaaS. On the side of the operators, we center around getting from $0 to $100m ARR faster, what it takes to scale successfully and what are the core elements of hiring. As for the investors, we learn what metrics they hone in on when examining SaaS business, what type of metrics excites them and what they look for in SaaS founders.
July 2024
July 13, 2024
#353 How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty — Founders
Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work. This quote explains why: "There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses, invent new technology, new ways to manage etc. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these lessons down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone's accumulated experience. There is so much more to learn from the past than we often realize. You could productively spend your time reading experiences of great people who have come before and you learn every time." —Marc Andreessen
June 2024
June 23, 2024
BG2 Ep10: Pre-IPO Markets & The Future of Software
Open Source bi-weekly conversation with Brad Gerstner (@altcap) & Bill Gurley (@bgurley) on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism
September 2023
September 27, 2023
David Senra — In Service of Founders
My guest today is David Senra, the creator and host of Founders Podcast. With an incredible appetite for biographies, David has delved into the lives of over three hundred entrepreneurs, extracting invaluable wisdom that he shares with his audience each week. Throughout the conversation, we discuss David’s love of podcasts, and what can be gained from studying the lives of not just entrepreneurs, but of athletes and film directors alike. I hope you enjoy this conversation with David Senra.
September 25, 2023
Nassim Taleb: Trading in the Age of Crisis
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September 15, 2023
How To Be Successful
I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up...
September 13, 2023
Predictable Mistakes of Developer Founders
So many developers (your podcast hosts included) make the same mistakes when trying to turn an idea into a business for the first time. In this episode, Ben and Adam talk through a bunch of these mistakes, why they matter, and what you should do to avoid them.Discuss this episode on Twitter →Timestamps
September 11, 2023
Matt Mullenweg: Leadership Lessons and Risk
is the Founder of Automattic, the force behind WordPress, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Longreads, Simplenote, Pocket Casts, and more. What started as a simple open-source blogging platform, Matt has turned into one of the most significant internet...
September 11, 2023
Patrick Campbell: Competitive Intelligence in SaaS
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Founder & CEO at ProfitWell, Patrick Campbell (@Patticus), about the billion dollar quilting industry, using spy secrets in business, buying cheap debt and a hostile takeover of a person.
September 11, 2023
Toolkit for Sleep
The first Neural Network Newsletter provides actionable tools, including a 12 step guide, to improve sleep.
September 10, 2023
#299 Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful) — Founders
What I learned from reading Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words.
September 10, 2023
#314 Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work) — Founders
What I learned from reading How To Do Great Work by Paul Graham.
August 2022
August 21, 2022
20 Sales: Three Reasons Why Sales People Fail | The Two Things That Matter When Hiring Sales Leaders | Why Revenue, Discounting and Price Do Not Matter in the Early Days with Jordan Van Horn, Revenue Leader @ Monte Carlo — The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
is a Revenue Leader @ , the world's first data observability company. Prior to this role, Jordan spent an incredible 4 years in sales at Segment including as VP of Sales leading a sales team of 50+ Account Executives and leading the first...
August 9, 2022
#143 Andrew Wilkinson: Entrepreneurial Insights — The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Canadian businessman and billionaire investor Andrew Wilkinson has made a successful career out of channeling his entrepreneurial spirit, but he knows that sometimes that energy can be a double-edged sword. On this episode, Wilkinson goes in-depth on...
August 9, 2022
#290 — What Went Wrong? — Making Sense with Sam Harris
A Conversation with Marc Andreessen
August 9, 2022
#606: Balaji S. Srinivasan — 5 — 10
Balaji S. Srinivasan — The Network State and How to Start a New Country | Brought to you by Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating, Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement, and Shopify global commerce platform providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business. More on all three below.
August 9, 2022
#613: Russ Roberts on Lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, Decision — Making Insights from Charles Darwin, The Dangers of Scientism, Wild Problems in Life and the Decisions That Define Us, Learnings from the Talmud, The Role of Prayer, and The Journey to Transcendence
Russ Roberts on Lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, Decision-Making Insights from Charles Darwin, The Dangers of Scientism, Wild Problems in Life and the Decisions That Define Us, Learnings from the Talmud, The Role of Prayer, and The Journey to Transcendence | Brought to you by Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement, Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating, and Pique premium pu’er tea crystals. More on all three below.
August 9, 2022
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) — Acquired
We sit down with a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle to discuss investing in “American Dynamism”, why it’s so important and why now is the right time to pursue it. Katherine has a fascinating background, beginning her career as a reporter at The Wa
August 9, 2022
Billion Dollar Business Philosophies With Hubspot Co — Founder Dharmesh Shah
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk to Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot, Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh), about why a bad economy is a good time to start a business, creating an alternative to Wordle, and the trillion dollar Venn diagram of success.
August 9, 2022
One Question Friday: Where Did You Succeed Where Others Did Not? — My First Million
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) answers one listener's question: What did you do differently that allowed you to succeed, that you think other people who had similar circumstances to you, did not? Where did you succeed where they did not?
August 9, 2022
Pieter Levels: Making $2.7M A Year With No Employees — My First Million
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Pieter Levels (@levelsio) about being a solopreneur who makes nearly $3M a year with no employees while living a nomadic lifestyle.
June 2022
June 2, 2022
Guillermo Rauch, Founder & CEO of Vercel, on Using Open — Source to Make The Web Faster
Guillermo Rauch is the Founder and CEO of Vercel, a cloud platform provider used to develop, preview, and ship frontend websites and applications using their Next.js open-source framework. Original...
May 2022
May 11, 2022
20 Product: iPhone Creator, Tony Fadell on Marketing Lessons Learned from Steve Jobs, What is Truly Great Product Marketing, How The Best Product Teams Do Post — Mortems and Product Reviews & Is Product Art or Science, Data or Gut?
, often referred to as the father of the iPod is one of the leading product thinkers of the last 30 years as one of the makers of some of the most game-changing products in society from the iPhone and iPod to more recently founding Nest, creating the...
February 2022
February 6, 2022
E66: $FB's major pullback, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup and understanding supply chain issues with Bestie Guestie Ryan Petersen (Flexport CEO) — All
0:00 Sacks' shining moment 2:34 Bestie Guestie Ryan Petersen joins to break down the supply chain situation: core issues, solutions, things to look out for 45:49 $FB's major pullback: causes, headwinds, and why going all-in on the Metaverse might have...
January 2022
January 21, 2022
#241 – Money, Happiness, and Productivity as a Solo Founder with Pieter Levels (Part 1 of 2) — Indie Hackers
Today I'm catching up with Pieter Levels (@levelsio) after 4 years. The world has changed dramatically since we last spoke. Attitudes toward remote work and global travel are all completely different now. We'll talk about what headwinds and tailwinds thes
January 16, 2022
#098 – How to Make $2.5MM as a Solo Founder by Teaching What You Love with Adam Wathan — Indie Hackers
Courtland Allen interviews the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to capitalize on new opportunities, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!
January 16, 2022
#63 with Andrew Wilkinson — Buying cash
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are joined today by Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) who is the co-founder of Tiny (tinycapital.com) - the internet version of Berkshire Hathaway. Shaan also launched a newsletter version of the podcast, subscribe t...
January 14, 2022
It's your turn — Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
The power of 'no place to hide
January 11, 2022
How to Get Rich: Every Episode — Naval
One giant episode that collects every episode of How to Get Rich.
January 11, 2022
Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling — My First Million
Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets) discuss Sam's article defending Theranos, airport houses, and conducting an end of year family review. They are then joined by Rob Walling (@RobWalling) who talks about great SaaS business that anyone could start.
January 10, 2022
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery — The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Seth Godin is the author of 20 bestselling books, founder of altMBA, the Akimbo podcast and runs one of the most popular blogs in the world. Seth and Shane chat about creative work, fear, shame, trusting yourself, what it means to be a professional,...
January 10, 2022
Finish Things [Zach Braff, Donald Faison] — The Swyx Mixtape
The Scrubs stars give advice to young creatives.